• grue@lemmy.world
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    No, it seriously doesn’t! Here are the actual steps, unabridged and in full, that I go through to game on Linux:

    1. Install Kubuntu
    2. sudo apt install steam
    3. There is no step 3; it just fucking works.

    You are posting FUD and misinformation. Knock it off.

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      You knock it off, there are so many small issues a distro like bazzite fixes that kubuntu won’t have patches for out of the box. Discord screen sharing, for one.

      Then in steam you have to direct steam to use proton for almost every game with a Linux build because almost none of them actually work correctly.

      Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously. It needs a polished, self explanatory GUI. If the app store version of steam isn’t good enough, then its not a good distro to recommend. Even then an app store might be too hard, many people are used to downloading apps from their website, and that problem hasn’t been solved by many distros, either.

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        2 months ago

        for the average joe using the terminal is too hard

        The average Joe can certainly find it difficult to justify spending the time learning the terminal… but actually learning how to use the terminal is easy (and I’m tired of everyone pretending it’s not). If we tech literate people can put aside our low expectations then maybe we’ll find it’s easier to teach that expected.

        Then we can consider something like downloading apps by visiting websites (perhaps after dodging malware links from adverts in modern search engines) a solved problem: don’t do that.

        This is something which ought to be taught in school as part of using a computer but users being tech literate probably goes against tech corporates that have their claws in education.